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1972L3 box672 b3Marivaux: Oeuvres de jeunesse. Bibliotheque de la Pleiade nrf In French. Edition Etablie Presentee et Annotee par Frederic Deloffre avec le concours de Claude Rigault. Editions Gallimard 1972. Leather bound 1425 pages. Editions Gallimard
1754810343Published by Arkstee & Merkus 1754. Hardback. Good. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Four volumes. Small format. 5.5 x 3 inches. Full tree calf binding. Raised bands gilt titles and decorations to spines. B/w frontis to each volume. Title pages in red and black with b/w vignette. Title label missing from Volume 4. Spine edges slightly cracked. A nice set. Published by Arkstee & Merkus hardcover
87897Paris Prault 1739. Small 8vo. 2. 53 3 pp. Later paper boards. Tchemerzine VII 431b. First edition. Pierre de Marivaux 1688-1763 French novelist and dramatist and considered as one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century. He wrote mostly comedies for the Comédie-Française and as in this case the Comédie-Italienne of Paris besides novels and journalism. hardcover
195920985Paris: Alfred Daber 1959. Hardcover. Loose as issued in orig. mauve stiff wrappers. Fine in fine maroon cloth chemise in fine matching cloth slipcase. 147 pages. Folio 40.8 x 30. cm. Limited edition copy 61 of 135 signed by Brianchon on Barcham Green paper printed by Mourlot in Romain Du Roi type intwo colors. 12 original color lithographed plates by Maurice Brianchon. Inscribed in ink lengthy dedication by the publisher Alfred Daber to the American Ambassador Charles Bohlen for US service to France in two world wars. Maurice Brianchon a French painter known as one of the Peintres de la Réalite Poétique or Painters of Poetic Reality. He studied at the at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. His early work is characterized by dynamic images of horse races theater stages and street scenes. He was the subject of a major retrospective at the Louvre in 1951 and the following year was selected as one of the official artists of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England. Marivaux is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris. This work originally published 1737. Almost as new copy Livre d'Artiste work. Alfred Daber hardcover
1765elala1411Paris: Duchesne 1765. 1765. 4 Volumes. 12mo. pp. xxiv 368; 2 p.l. 360; 1 p.l. 372; 1 p.l. 371 1blank 3privilege. with half-titles. engraved frontis. portrait by Chenu after Garand. woodcut ornaments initials & title vignettes. A very nice set in contemporary mottled calf gilt backs two corners worn. First Collected Edition. Including Le Don Quichotte moderne; L'Histoire de Melle Goton et de M. le Gris; L'Homère travesti ou l'Illiade en vers burlesque; L'Éducation d'un prince; Le Miroir; Réflexions sur les hommes; Fragment d'un ouvrage qui à pour titre: Réflexions sur l'Esprit humain à l'occasion de Corneille & de Racine; Réflexions diverses sur les Romains; Réflexions sur Thucyde; Compliment à M. le Chancelier; Lettre d'une Dame Allemande à une de ses Amies; L'Apprentif Coquet Aventure; Dialogue de Sylla et d'Eucrate; La Voiture embourbée. On the verso of the half-title is a list of Marivauxs works published by Duchesne. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Paris: Duchesne, 1765. Hardcover
175652114à La Haye The Hague: Chez Henri Scheurleer 1756. Fine. Chez Henri Scheurleer à La Haye The Hague 1756 9 x 16 cm 8 parties reliées en 2 volumes New édition. The 8 parts each have a title page. Title pages of the first part and the fifth in red and black. Novel first published between 1734 and 1736 the last three parts are apocryphal and appear here at Scheurleer in first edition. Contemporary full brown calf bindings. Raised band spines ornate with fleurons and stars. Red morocco title labels and brown morocco volume labels. Restorations to joints and headcaps. Scattered browning. Good copy. Like La vie de Marianne Le Paysan parvenu is based on memoirs and the rise of a handsome young man of great wit but poor and of peasant extraction. His qualities which will make him appealing in women's eyes will allow him to make his way in the bourgeoisie and achieve success. Marivaux uses the devices of the picaresque novel throwing his character from one adventure to another. At the end of the fifth part Marivaux tells his reader what awaits him in the sixth but the author will return to writing la vie de Marianne of which Le paysan parvenu seems to be the masculine parallel and the last three parts will be completed by an unknown author. Chez Henri Scheurleer unknown
176581719à Paris: Chez Duchesne 1765. Fine. Chez Duchesne à Paris 1765 9.50 x 16.80 cm 4 volumes reliés The rather rare first collected edition of these various works. Contemporary binding in full marbled and glazed sheep. Decorated smooth spine. Havana morocco title and volume labels. Lacks to joints at head of volume I. Lack to upper joint at head of volume II and lacks at foot. Upper joint split at foot of volume II. Rubbing to joints headcaps edges and corners. This edition contains Don Quixote moderne L'Homère travestie ou L'Iliade en vers burlesques L'éducation d'un prince La voiture embourbée Le miroir Refléxions sur l'esprit humain etc. Chez Duchesne unknown
171570457Paris: Pierre Prault 1716. 16mo. French language. 2 volumes. xi lxxiv 264; iv 320 4 12 ads. pp. Full dark blue morocco with raised bands and gilt letering to spines; all edges gilt. Minimal fading to edges of boards otherwise externally in near fine condition. Pages toned with occasional minor offsetting of spots but generally very good. Black & white intaglio illustrations throughout. The playwright and novelist's burlesque of Homer. . Near Fine. Full Morocco. 1715. Pierre Prault 1716 unknown
1734elala1412The Hague: C. De Rogissart & Sisters 1734-35. 1734. 5 Volumes in 1. 12mo. pp. 95; 106 2 blank leaves; 111; 94 blank leaf; 92. woodcut ornaments initials & title vignettes. contemporary vellum bit soiled hint of foxing. ownership entry of Maria Mackenzie dated March 1750. with the bookplates of Lytton Strachey & Roger Senhouse. Second Edition published the same year as the rare Paris first. "Marivauxs greatest achievement as a novelist is his two memoir-novels both published in instalments and left unfinished These free-wheeling digressive texts display most fully their authors gift for combining psychological exploration and moral reflection Where La Vie de Marianne belongs to the moralizing and sentimental romance tradition Le Paysan is a cynical comic novel of the way of the world though both stories are full of subtle psychological observations. The tale is told in later life by the unashamed and good-humoured hero Jacob who has risen from his peasant origins to a wealthy and respectable position as a tax-farmer thanks to his resourceful wit and his physical attractions. He profits amorally from the affections of a series of usually older women some of them with reputations for piety; these adventures are recounted in a spirited style with a sharp eye for the hypocrisy of the respectable." The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French Gay V 459. cfCioranescu 42730 Paris: 1735-36. cfQuérard V 543 Paris: 1735. cfTchemerzine VII 427 b Paris: 1735. The Hague: C. De Rogissart & Sisters, 1734-35. hardcover
172582831Paris: Noël PissotPierre DelormelFrançois Flahaut 1725. Fine. Noël Pissot Pierre Delormel François Flahaut Paris 1725 9.50 x 16 cm relié Rare first edition of L'Ile des esclaves. Nineteenth-century Bradel binding in half beige cloth smooth spine uniformly soiled faded long title label gilt date at foot cat's eye pebbled paper boards all edges red. Binding signed Lemardeley. Scattered foxing. ""Vous avez été leurs maîtres et vous en avez mal agi ; ils sont devenus les vôtres et ils vous pardonnent ; faites vos réflexions là-dessus."" ""You have been their masters and you have acted badly; they have become yours and they forgive you; reflect upon this."" Trivelin final scene Noël PissotPierre DelormelFrançois Flahaut hardcover
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1758896M15Paris: N. B. Duchesne 1758. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. A new edition of this five-volume set of the works of the important French playwright Pierre de Marivaux. A five-volume set in full mottled calf bindings with marbled end papers.Ink inscription to the title page of each volume. Bookplate of the Rev. F. Hutcheson to the front paste down of Volumes II III IV and V. Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1688-1763 commonly known simply as Marivaux is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the eighteenth century. He wrote many comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris including Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard and Les Fausses Confidences. He also published a number of essays and two important but unfinished novels La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu.This five-volume set includes much of Marivaux's best-known works including Le Triomphe de l'amour Les Fausses Confidences L'Île de la raison and La Dispute. Most of the plays are complete with their individual original half title pages and original title pages with dates ranging from 1740 to 1760 and one 'Le Legs' with the publisher Prault though the title page for each volume states that this set was published in 1758 by N. B. Duchesne. The contents page for all five volumes found in Volume I matches the contents of the individual volumes.This is a scarce work particularly in a complete five-volume set. In full mottled calf bindings. Externally generally smart though rubbed to the spines and extremities. Gilt is a little faded to the spine. A couple of small losses to the leather to the boards of Volumes II III IV and V. A small loss to the gutter of the eighth page of Volume I. Cracking to the tail of the front joint to Volume V. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good N. B. Duchesne hardcover
178185543A Paris: Chez La veuve Duchesne 1781. Fine. Chez La veuve Duchesne A Paris 1781 12.50 x 20 cm 12 volumes reliés First collected edition complete of the works of Marivaux. A portrait by Saint Aubin in a frame by Marillier as frontispiece. Publisher's bindings in full contemporary blonde marbled calf. Spines with raised bands decorated in gilt compartments gilt rolls at foot. Title and volume labels in tawny morocco. Triple gilt rule framing the boards. In the first volume the tissue guard has caused browning to the first third of the title page opposite and to the second leaf. Lower joint of volume 1 narrowly split at head and foot small lack at foot. Volume II: lack to lower joint at head lack at foot. Volume III: joints split at head. Volume IV: lacks at head and foot. Volume VII: small split to upper joint at head and a lack at head. Volume IX: lack at head. Volume X: small split to upper joint at head. Volume XII: small lack at foot. Evidence of rubbing particularly to corners and some corners slightly bumped but overall fine set with relatively fresh paper with some signatures slightly more yellowed. The only early edition bringing together the theatrical and narrative works. As indicated by Tchemerzine VII 437-438 the 1825-1830 edition is less complete only one other text by Marivaux not included in this edition will be published as supplement in 1922: La Provinciale; moreover the 1825 edition does not reproduce all the works contained in the 12th volume. This edition brings together rare fictional works: Les Effets surprenants de la sympathie Le Spectateur françois L'Indigent philosophe Le Cabinet du philosophe Homère travesti Le Don Quichotte moderne L'Éducation d'un prince Le Miroir La Voiture embourbée Le Télémaque travesti. The edition brings together 51 texts by the author including the entirety of his theatrical works. Chez La veuve Duchesne hardcover
172389534Paris: Chez la Veuve Guillaume 1723. Fine. ""Almost all of them could be called 'The Surprise of Love'"" Chez la Veuve Guillaume Paris 1723 10.1 x 16 cm relié First edition. Full red morocco binding round spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons slight rubbing on the caps double frame of blind-stamped gilt fillets on the covers with fleurons at the corners of the inner frame edges slightly blunt marbled paper endpapers and back covers gilt edges and heads very elegant 19th-century binding a la Du Seuil signed Quinet on the first endpaper. Rare first edition of Chamblain de Marivaux's first theatrical success The Surprise of Love published four years before The Second Surprise of Love. This play performed in the spring of 1722 before being published the following year in 1723 already contains all the essence of Marivaux's style all its subtle gallantry. According to the Romantic poet Theophile Gautier it is the author's masterpiece. When the playwright submitted his work to the ""Italian Comedians of His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans"" who had enjoyed the protection of the regent since 1716 the troupe leader of the ""new Italian Theatre"" the renowned actor ""Ricoboni dit Lelio"" was in the process of moving away from farcical theatre in favour of more accomplished plays. Nineteen performances of Marivaux's works will be played by the Italian actors whose acting style was considered more natural than codified. One actress in particular Giovanna-Rosa Benozzi known as Silvia excelled in this art. She was preferred by her contemporaries ""to the brunette Quinault the blonde Balicourt the beautiful Clairon and the young Gaussin all of them Comédie-Française"" actresses. Her first encounter with Marivaux which turned out to be rather eccentric took place after the premiere of The Surprise of Love and was reported by biographer Gaston Deschamps. The playwright went anonymously backstage to congratulate the great actress. Faced with her unknown admirer Silvia complained that she ""did not fully grasp the subtlety of her role"". Marivaux recited a few lines from his play to which the actress replied with great admiration: ""You are either the devil or the author"". According to the Marquis d'Argenson Marivaux's comedies ""could almost all be called 'The Surprise of Love'"". This slightly ironic assessment nevertheless confirms Theophile Gautier's judgement. Indeed this sixth play by Marivaux is the true matrix of his future work and of the famous marivaudage which would culminate in 1730 with The Game of Love and Chance. A very rare copy in a beautiful a la Du Seuil binding signed by a 19th-century master bookbinder. Chez la Veuve Guillaume hardcover
